Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

First published in the United States by New Directions in 2017

First published in France as Lettres à sa voisine by Éditions Gallimard in 2013

Translation and afterword copyright © 2017 by Lydia Davis

Proust letters and critical apparatus copyright © 2013 Éditions Gallimard

Published by arrangement with Éditions Gallimard.

4th Estate is grateful to Éditions Gallimard for providing the facsimiles and photographs, and for facilitating their use in this edition.

Fascimilies of Proust’s letters are courtesy of a private collection / Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, Paris

Photograph of Marie Williams courtesy of Gérard Emler collection

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Source ISBN: 9780008262891

Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008262884

Version: 2017-09-19

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword

A note on the French edition

A note on the English-language edition

Letter 1

Letter 2

Letter 3

Letter 4

Letter 5

Letter 6

Letter 7

Letter 8

Letter 9

Letter 10

Letter 11

Letter 12

Letter 13

Letter 14

Letter 15

Letter 16

Letter 17

Letter 18

Letter 19

Letter 20

Letter 21

Letter 22

Letter 23

Letter 24

Letter 25

Letter 26

Translator’s afterword

Floor plan of Proust’s apartment

Notes

Index

Works and Characters of Proust

About the Authors

Selected Translations of Lydia Davis

About the Publisher

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